Logo

NCBI Introduces Tax Blast Offering Taxonomy Data

May 19, 2000
Premium

BETHESDA, Md.--The US National Center for Biotechnology Information has introduced a new service that groups Blast hits by source organism according to information from the center's taxonomy database. Tax Blast generates reports based on the list of source organisms found in a particular Blast hitlist and can be found from the Taxonomy reports link in the regular Blast output page.

Filed under

Informatics
Breaking News
The Scan

White-Tailed Deer Harbor SARS-CoV-2 Variants No Longer Infecting Humans, Study Finds

A new study in PNAS has found that white-tailed deer could act as a reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 variants no longer found among humans.

Study Points to Benefits of Local Consolidative Therapy, Targeted Treatments in Cancer Care

In JCO Precision Oncology, researchers report that local consolidative therapy combined with molecularly targeted treatments could improve survival for some lung cancer patients.

Genetic Variants That Lower LDL Cholesterol Linked to Reduced Heart Disease Risk

Rare variants in two genes that lower LDL cholesterol are also associated with a decreased risk of coronary heart disease, according to a new JAMA Cardiology study.

Study Links Evolution of Longevity, Social Organization in Mammals

With the help of comparative phylogenetics and transcriptomics, researchers in Nature Communications see ties between lifespan and social organization in mammals.